and a Sweetheart Ring (two-piece construction
Paul-Adolphe Dieudonné Thiébault's lineage can be traced back one more generation: his maternal grandmother (Elizabeth "Betsy" Walker's mother) was the Scottish novelist Lady Mary Hamilton (May 8
silvered bronze and black and pebbled red enamels
featuring an Army eagle crossguard
surrounded by an open-ended wreath of laurel leaves and surmounted by the Royal crown
Netherlands, Kingdom. A Royal Order Of Holland, Grand Cross Star, C.1880 Archive and a Sweetheart Ring (two-piece(Orde van Holland). Established by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, King of Holland, in 1806. Abolished in 1811. Type III (1806 1807). Of high quality manufacture, a superb napoleonic era decoration referred to as a later Bacqueville manufacture, consisting of a beaded eight pointed multiple rayed convex star in silver, the obverse exhibiting a detailed superposed crowned Dutch lion swimming on brave waves, surrounded by Orders motto DOE WEL EN ZIE NIET OM